Author: Dashiell Hammett

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• E. Annie Proulx (1)
  • IN: Postcards (1992) Novel, American
    EPIGRAPH: But that's the part of it I awlays liked. He adjusted himself to beams falling, and then no more of them fell, and he adjusted himself to them not falling,
    FROM: The Maltese Falcon, (1930), Novel, US
• Andrew Pepper (1)
  • IN: Bloody Winter (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Since then the smelters whose brick stacks stuck up tall against a gloomy mountain to the south had yellow-smoked everything into uniform dinginess. The result was an ugly city of forty thousand people, set in an ugly notch between two ugly mountains that had been all dirtied up by mining.
    FROM: Red Harvest, (1929), Novel, US
• Noel Hynd (1)
  • IN: Midnight In Madrid (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: "Then the bird doesn’t belong to any of you?” Spade asked. “Belong?” the fat man said jovially. “Well, sir, you might say it belonged to the King of Spain, but…an article of that value that has passed from hand to hand…is clearly the property of whoever can get a hold of it.”
    FROM: The Maltese Falcon, (1930), Novel, US